Bonnet Carré Spillway
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The Bonnet Carré Spillway is a flood control operation in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Located in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, about 12 miles west of New Orleans, it allows floodwaters from the Mis
The Bonnet Carré Spillway diverting excess Mississippi River water
Bonnet Carré Spillway on the Mississippi River viewed to the northeast with Lake Pontchartrain in the distance.
Construction of Bonnet Carré Spillway, Louisiana, 1929.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opening the Bonnet Carré Spillway on May 9, 2011
The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in the history of the United States, with 27,000 square miles inundated in depths of up to 30 feet over the course of several m
Bonnet Carré Spillway
…Mississippi River to flow into Lake Pontchartrain and thence into the Gulf of Mexico. The spillway was constructed between 1929 and 1931, following the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, and has been designated as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers. The Bonnet Carré Crevasse was…
An aerial view of one of the levee breaches (Mound Landing, Mississippi, breached 21 April)
Submerged farmland
A river levee is blown up in Caernarvon, Louisiana (29 April)
Poultry and livestock sit on a levee just above the water